Search Results for: Michigan Automotive History

Starting at Mayor, Number 21, Dave Bing

May 13, 2009 – 4:58 pm

Yesterday Dave Bing was sworn in as the 62nd mayor of Detroit (here's the list of Detroit Mayors). Wikipedia's page on Dave Bing notes that he was a seven-time All-Star for the Detroit Pistons from 1966 to 1975. He was rookie of the year, is in the Basketball Hall of Fame, his number 21 was [...]

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Remembering Detroit Pistons owner Bill Davidson

March 14, 2009 – 7:36 am

The Real Fab Five, photo by Dave Hogg.
For any successful organization or business, you have to have integrity, and you have to make everything as straightforward as you can make it.
~Detroit Pistons owner William Davidson
(via Michigan in Pictures) Sometimes when I don't know what I'm going to post on Michigan in Pictures, it's a happy [...]

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Michigan Automotive History: Reo Motor Car Company

January 15, 2009 – 10:51 am

In association with our coverage of the Detroit Auto Show (aka North American International Auto Show) and the upcoming Michigan International Auto Show in Grand Rapids, we are taking rear view mirror look at the REO Motor Car Company.
The R.E. Olds Transportation Museum in Lansing is a great place to learn about Olds and about [...]

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Michigan Books: The Model T: A Centennial History by Robert Casey

December 18, 2008 – 2:09 pm

The Model T: A Centennial History by Robert Casey (Johns Hopkins University Press) -- Debuting in 1908 as the first mass-produced and truly affordable car, the Ford Model T quickly revolutionized automotive design, engineering, manufacturing and sales, and American society as a whole. Complete with historic photographs and color advertisements, many from the Benson Ford [...]

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Michigan History: Where the Model T Began

November 17, 2008 – 1:17 pm

6 seater Model T - b&w by LindaB.
Jerald Mitchell calls the Ford Motor Company's Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit "a fulcrum point of human history [where] the balance of history shifted." It was at this factory in Detroit that Henry Ford and his cohorts conceived the Model T automobile. For nine months, these men labored [...]

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George Romney – a "brainwashed" candidate?

November 1, 2007 – 9:18 am

Forty years ago this past September, George Romney sat down with Detroit television host Lou Gordon. Responding to a question about an earlier visit to Vietnam, the Michigan governor said that he "had the greatest brainwashing that anybody can get when they go over to Viet Nam."
The use of that one word changed Romney's life [...]

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Five things you need to know for Monday, July 23, 2007

July 23, 2007 – 10:05 am

Extreme view of the auto industry
NPR had an interesting interview with Peter DeLorenzo of Autoextremist.com. Autoextremist is a site that purports to offer "the bare-knuckled, unvarnished, high-octane truth" about the challenges facing Detroit's auto industry. DeLorenzo is an auto industry consultant, and if you want octane-rich bare-knucklery with a minimum of varnish, look [...]

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A Marshall Plan for the auto industry?

April 12, 2007 – 9:20 am

We may need to rename our blog "Dig Michigan as Dug by GROW Detroit". They tipped us off to something that most media in the state seems to be ignoring: approval by the state House labor committee to call on the U.S. Congress to create a "Marshall Plan" for the auto industry. Democrat Fred Miller [...]

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Michigan Automotive History: Ford Motor Company

January 17, 2007 – 9:12 am

Tin Lizzies (Library of Congress)
Did you hear the story of the guy who built a bike, won a race, and used $28,000 to build one of the oldest and most successful automobile companies in the world?
You should, especially when it's Michigan's very own Henry Ford and his Ford Motor Company that we're talking about. Below [...]

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Michigan Automotive History: Olds Motor Vehicle Company

January 15, 2007 – 11:57 am

In association with our coverage of the North American International Auto Show (aka Detroit Auto Show) and the upcoming Michigan International Auto Show in Grand Rapids, we will be posting a series of short features on Michigan's rich auto heritage. It's usually best to start somewhere near the beginning, and that would be at Ransom [...]

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